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11 Jan IRELAND AND SCOTLAND TOURS 2023

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Happy New Year!   Here at Ireland and Scotland Luxury Tours we are already getting very busy for 2023.   If you are planning either a tour of Ireland, a tour of Scotland, or both, you need to start planning now!   The choice hotels in both Ireland and Scotland are...

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06 Jan Ireland And Scotland Tours 2020

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If you are seriously thinking of a tour of Ireland, a tour of Scotland, or a tour of Ireland and Scotland, start planning NOW   It seems that 2020 will be a busy year for private, chauffeur driven, tours. Many travellers have become more “savvy” in what they...

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13 Nov Loch Lomond

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This is the largest body of inland water in Great Britain and well worth seeing on any tours of Scotland. It is 24 miles long and varies in width from ¾ mile to 5 miles. There are 30 islands in Loch Lomond.   One island is Inchmurrin, which has...

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12 Aug Tours of Ireland And Scotland 2020

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If you are seriously considering a tour of Ireland, or a tour of Scotland, start planning now!   It has come to our attention that the choice hotels are booking up already. The right hotel, in the right location, with the right room, with the right staff, can...

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28 Nov Old Man of Hoy, Orkney

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Of the 49 islands which constitute Orkney (not ‘the Orkneys’, or the ‘the Orkney Islands’), Hoy is the 2nd largest, after the island called Mainland. It is only 14 miles by 6, but even so you will have to walk a good 6 miles to...

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03 Nov Loch Leven, Kinross-shire, Tayside

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Castle Island is not the largest on Loch Leven (St Serf’s is) but it is certainly the most famous, a distinction arising out of the island’s connection with Mary Queen of Scots. During the years 1567-8, she was imprisoned here, the unwilling guest of Lady...

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18 May Floors Castle, Roxburgh

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The village of Roxburgh as it exists today is barely noticeable, as it quietly gets on with its farming business by the banks of the River Teviot in the Borders heartland. But in the Middle Ages there was a town of the same name about...

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11 May Dunnottar Castle, Kincardineshire, Grampian

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Perched on cliffs, roughly 200 feet high, and a deep chasm on the landward side, it is plain why Dunnottar Castle, 2 miles south of Stonehaven on the east coast, was for centuries a favourite stronghold of the power-hungry Scottish nobility (and, on occasion, of...

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09 May Linlithgow, West Lothian, Lothian

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One of Scotland’s oldest royal burghs, Linlithgow was a common stopover for important personages in the Middle Ages. Today the ruins of the fortified Linlithgow Palace are exceptionally well preserved. Its oldest part is the tower in the right foreground, which was built in 1302....

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